The merest hint of effeminacy is treated as treachery to masculinity, and traitors are subjected to the kinds of violence suffered by women. |
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Cecil watched his opponent warily, ready to retaliate at the merest hint of an attack. |
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With his soft grey eyes, enviable cheekbones and hair that tousles endearingly at the merest touch, he has all the makings of a teen idol. |
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Apparently the merest whiff of a grease-infused treat can harden body parts other than the arteries. |
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He got hold of the property by the merest accident, and as soon as he did he began his work by attacking three unfortunate orphans on the estate. |
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He just kept on playing, allowing himself only the merest nod of recognition. |
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The nose aromas are pretty well non-existent, with the merest hint of American oak. |
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The merest flick of her perfectly-manicured hands can sum up whatever idea she is trying to express. |
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A slight raise of the eyebrow, the merest twitch of the lip can say so much. |
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But great bowlers get date-stamped at the merest hint of decline, an ingrowing toenail, a whisper about fatigue or a wicketless match. |
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A seasonal greeting, or the merest mention of the C-word, is enough to get the landlord shaking the swear-box meaningfully. |
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Access to information and knowledge must be ensured without the merest discrimination. |
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Will we have just the merest fraction of the courage of this Algerian lieutenant? |
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It's even stranger when you consider the great cry for separation of Church and State whenever anyone wants to intrude the merest sniff of religion into politics. |
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The merest of pauses follow as he ponders his quick-fire response. |
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At the time when these papers were written he had received no instruction in mathematics beyond a few books of Euclid and the merest elements of algebra. |
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She wields her sexual magnetism casually and with the merest dash of self-conscious cruelty. |
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Despite those riches, however, the merest mention of that disastrous November night is enough to make any France fan come out in a cold sweat. |
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In this environment, the merest hint of a partisan decision could have been disastrous. Mr Bernanke's reappointment has defused that danger. |
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Both the little knobbly planes and the great big jumbos are easy to put together and move at the merest hint of a breeze. |
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At the merest mention of strike action the Gordon Campbell Liberal Government quickly imposed a legislated contract on the Teachers. |
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Peoples' wells and springs were giving the merest trickle of water and the Douro dust was thick on all our farm tracks and covered our vehicles. |
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Compared to the Canadian Shield, the world's great mountain ranges are the merest infants. |
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Father, to You I offer praise, for you have revealed these things to the merest children. |
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I in turn don't contain even the merest trace elements of sympathy for the ambitious, vain and greedy trendoids who masquerade as contestants on these shows. |
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From a finance standpoint, Telemundo is the merest blip on GE's radar. |
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I do not speak Kiowa, and I never understood her prayers, but there was something inherently sad in the sound, some merest hesitation upon the syllables of sorrow. |
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Since then, birding luminaries and legendary enthusiasts have sacrificed huge chunks of their lives to catch the merest glimpse of the wondrous woodpecker. |
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The most bizarre thing is that this is somehow all balanced out by the baby giving us the merest hint of a smile, besides which our complaints pale into insignificance. |
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I am now well into my third month of unpaid holiday and beginning to entertain the merest suggestion of an idea of a suspicion that I could get used to this. |
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I said in my previous letter that I felt that somewhere, in the deep recesses of his mind, there may be the merest phantom of a thought that I might be right. |
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Thus we learn, to nobody's very great surprise, that he was a depressive, a drunk whose intake makes, say, the late Kingsley Amis look like the merest tap-room trifler. |
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To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is merest decency. |
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And that is why we came up with the idea of this single-theme exhibition, representing the merest fraction of what a traveller might discover when wandering around the Czech Republic. |
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The miles slipped by all too quickly, covering only the merest jot of the great journey stretching before me, the great journey I would soon have to undertake unassisted, unbefriended, and in ignorance. |
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This is not to say that you may not drink the merest drop of beer ever after, simply that regular heavy drinking is not exactly the brightest idea in the world. |
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The referee David Fernández Borbalán kept a tight rein on it with a zero-tolerance policy, booking seven players, often at the merest hint of violence. |
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Murray's deep-fried squab was bony and over-cooked so that it was dry and had a liverish texture, with the merest hint of five spice powder. |
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The merest adumbration of an apology on Baron Veen's part would clinch the matter with a token of gracious finality. |
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On the face of the patent, there must be a rational connection or nexus between the invention described in the patent and the medicine, which can be one of the merest slender thread. |
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And when the conversation turns to the 2003 final with Boca, the 25-year-old is at pains to reject the merest suggestion that this was a revenge mission. |
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In the absence of capital controls, a rational depositor in a Greek bank could shift his or her deposit into another bank in the euro region at the merest hint of crisis, the very option that politicians would like to avoid. |
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The financial markets, which have a good view of the overall imbroglio, are nervous, and will over-react to the merest flutter of a butterfly wing suspected of unleashing a storm at the other end of the world. |
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Both sides are known for their tactical astuteness and the match could well hinge on the slightest loss of concentration or merest flash of brilliance. |
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Instead, we will see ourselves as a little child, who is hardly able to offer even the merest trifles to his father, but who then sees them received most joyfully. |
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The powerful floral scent evokes lavender with the merest hint of camphor. |
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She suffers from a fear known as lachanophobia, which leaves her sweating and stricken with panic attacks at the merest sight of a sprout or a pea. |
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